#tamagotchi connexion

[tamaritchi]

Cheerful Mametchi. ✨ ⁠\⁠(⁠･⁠◡⁠･⁠)⁠/✨

[tamapalace]

and now i totally get it 💚

[tamatomo]

Nyatchi and The Clone

[mycomicbox]

Last week, I sent an email to Bandai about the possibility of rereleasing the Tamagotchi Connection line next year for the 20th anniversary. This was their response:

As confirmed by others, this isn't just a generic bot response.

If you also want to contact Bandai for a Tamagotchi Connection rerelease, look here. With enough of us, we might be able to make it happen! Don't spam though, and be respectful.

Go into detail about the high demand for the Connections on the secondhand market. (They often go for $100 USD or more, especially the Connection v4/v4.5, which are considered some of the best Tamagotchi devices ever released.)

Mention that the 20th anniversary of the Connection series is next year (2024).

I'm hoping for the best, but I'm prepared for potential disappointment.

[foreignobjecticus]

[notanothermikey]

Look who got Tama-Mail! These Connexion pouches fit the Uni great!

More still available on Aliexpress!

[oldschoolvpq]

Pochitchi Rally: Not Pochitchi

Good morning Kuchipatchi?!

I thought I'd done a decent job raising the V2 for the first time but I guess not. Oh well!

...coming back to add that Kuchipatchi is the same rank character as Pochitchi on the V2, so it was just luck of the draw!

[pineappuu-pineappley]

Yo if anyone knows where to buy tamagotchi connexions v2-v whatever hmu

My bro and I found ours again yesterday and they still work fine but we deadass want more

[chuck-e-cheese-anime-faces]

Aaw

[usagi-tchi]

Incoming Music Stars!

Guys I’m so excited - I’m getting these two Tamas in the mail and I can hardly wait. I’ve wanted a Music Star since I was young but my mom never let me because I had “too many Tamagotchis” (I literally had 2, a V3 and V4). With the sudden popularity of them I thought I’d never be able to get yet V6 but all of a sudden they just showed up and I locked down 2 within an hour of each other. One I bought (the Argos Pink Glitter) and the other I got from a trade (Keyboard).

Remember being pretty sad about not being able to find any within a reasonable price range online so I’m very happy rn.

[tamaritchi]

Young Mimitchi. 💙

[tamapalace]

Wilbur Soot from Lovejoy Band Shows off Pink Tamagotchi Connexion V3 in NME Interview

Wilbur Soot, the co-founder of the British indie rock band Lovejoy was recording an interview with fellow band members for NME at Reading Festival, an annual music festival that takes place in Reading, England. New Musical Express which is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

The interviewer asks for the story behind Wilbur Soot’s love for Tamagotchi, Wilbur pulls out the Tamagotchi from his bag and shows it off to the camera. It appears to be a Tamagotchi Connexion pink with ice cream shell which was actually a gift from a fan!

Wilbur explains that he also has a limited edition gold Tamagotchi too which is his everyday Tamagotchi. Fans actually give them Tamagotchi’s, and Wilbur is a big Tamagotchi fan. In fact Wilbur was a member of a Tamagotchi forum back in 2005 when he was 10, and that is where his name Soot comes from.

[tamatomo]

[young-mametchi]

@dysfunctionalrobit goes into the card shop to get a heartfelt card and they love it

[sa311]

Tamagotchi Connection and Plus series, comparison

The Tamagotchi Connection series is comprised of the Tamagotchi released in the west during the aughts, starting with the V1 and ending with the Friends.

The Tamagotchi Plus series is comprised of the Tamagotchi released in Japan during that same period of time. The Connection releases up to the V5.5 were based on these Japanese releases. But only the V1, V5 and V5.5 had mostly the same gameplay as their Japanese counterparts. The others were quite different so I would like to talk about these differences. because if i see the keitai getting called “japanese V3” or the entama getting called “japanese V4” one more time i WILL start biting people

So let’s start with the Japanese releases.

The Plus was the first release, introducing the IR communication. It was pretty basic in terms of functionality, but it had some charm that is missing from the future releases, like the idle animations and each adult tier having their own food.

If you had a Plus in Japan in 2004, you would have access to something we never got in the west: the Deka Tamagotchi.

All it did at this point was play a little animation with your own Tamagotchi, but this wasn’t the case for the next release, the Keitai series.

The Keitai series introduced the concept of money (Gotchi Points) in Tamagotchi. And with it, naturally, several items to buy. But the Keitai does not have a built-in shop, it just has a vendor that comes by at certain times and brings one item to sell. This is because, just like the matchmaker is a last resort in case you can’t connect with another device, the vendor is meant to be a way of getting items the days you didn’t have access to your nearest Deka Tama Shop or a phone with the Keitai app.

Similarly, there are just 3 built-in games and winning them only gets you 100 points. This is because you are meant to also be able to go to the Deka Tamagotchi Game Center, which had 5 games more. The phone app is not well documented, but it probably had more things to do other than shop.

The Entama and Uratama also relied on the Deka releases like this, but instead of the phone app it had e-tamago, the Japanese equivalent of TamaTown. This website had a very complete shop, with the gimmick of having some of the items be “sold out” some days.

Also, the Japanese releases tend to be cleaner in a way. There were guides explaining how to get each character and it’s easy to get the character you want every single time. All characters had a personality and an official artwork.

The Keitai series had very few characters in comparison to the V3, but their sprites were clean and the had more C-click reactions. The items you could use changed from character to character, and some items would unlock new connection games.

The Entama and Uratama have similar characters to their Connection counterparts, but in these you can always know who you are going to get from the moment you get a baby. The special families are obtained using an item you get from a Deka, and apparently also from a TV game.

The Plus series had a lot of features, but most were only accessible in Japan and / or are lost media now. But you can still get most if not all of the items via passwords and code generators.

Let’s talk about the Connections now.

The Plus had an interesting transition to the V1. First it was translated into English in an... interesting way with the European Tamagotchi Connexion, which was still mostly the same as the Plus. Then the USA Tamagotchi Connection was released, featuring the translation and the pause function that would persist on all the future releases of the series. This one altered many sprites to tone down the Japanese cultural elements present in the original Plus.

They couldn’t afford to do all the Deka stuff over here so they had to change how to get items in the V2. They made a built-in shop and added more games that could pay more if won. Since it could not connect to a phone, they did not give the V2 an antenna like the one the Keitai has. But then they did use the antenna with the V3, which now could connect to TamaTown.

And that’s it. That’s all the Keitai and the V3 have in common. The antenna. And one (1) game and some characters but the gameplay is completely different. The V2 and V3 just added stuff to the V1. More characters, more items and all adults can use all items.

But we didn’t get a guide and the characters you get are a bit randomized anyway. The Keitai series, had few carefully made characters with their own personalities and artwork. The Connections had a lot more characters but they were presented like this.

This is an official chart by Bandai.

I am not joking. They only used artwork and descriptions for the characters that got one in Japan.

Also, some of the sprites made for the Connections are a bit rougher than the ones found in the Plus series.

The V4 was closer to the Entama since they took the main teens and adults and the whole skill system and career features. But you have no way of predicting what kind of adult you’ll get until you have a teen. Each toddler is more likely to become some specific teens, but there’s still randomness to it, unlike with the Entama. And the special families were replaced by a neglect family that you get if you don’t train them enough or neglect them too much. The V4 also had actual minigames for the jobs. It also retained the features found in the V3, like having an actual in-game shop instead of forcing you to use TamaTown or wait for some vendor.

So basically TLDR

The Plus series had less built-in content. Everything in them is very carefully thought and cleaner looking, but without access to many of the features lost to time some might find them lacking in content.

The Connections have way more characters and in-built games, but they are all based on the V1 and look a bit messier. Also the characters you get are a bit random so you never know who you will get.

I love them both but they are very different.

[notanothermikey]

The Uni fits fine in the Connection Series Pouches!

Mimitchi in her Mimitchi pouch!